Bolting-reel



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

J. E. WELGH. BOLTINGREEL.

No. 415,688. Patented Nov. 19, 1889.

3 5 the last portion of the up 1novement,in which UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES E. IVELCH, OF PETERSBURG, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALE TO ALBERT B. BOXVMAN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

'BOLT l NG-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,688, dated November 19, 1889.

Application filed July 19, 1886. Serial No. 208,484. (No model.)

T 60% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. IVELGH, of Petersburg, Menard county, Illinois, have made a new and useful Improvement in Bolting-Reels, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description.

The improvement is exhibited in the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side sectional elevation showing a reel provided with the improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of one of the carriers and its support, and Fig. 4: is a side elevation of the parts of Fig.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The reel A exhibited is of the familiar hexagonal type, and it is operated in the cus- 2o tomary manner, saving as the construction and operation are modified by the improvement in question.

B B represent a series of what may be termec carriers, which rotate with the reel. 2 5 The carriers consist each of a concave strip of sheet-iron 11, arranged longitudinally in the reel opposite and near the reel rib a,with its concave side turned toward the reel-rib and pivoted at b to the reel-arms a and so as to bring the (then) upper edge of the strip 1) nearer than its lower edge to the reel-cloth in the first portion of the up movement of the strip, then to turn on the pivot b to bring the first-named edge farther from the reel-cloth in position of the strip both of its edges are nearly, if not quite, equidistant from the reelcloth. The strip remains in this relative position to the reel-cloth as the reel turns around into the first portion of the clownmovement of the strip, after which the strip turns on its pivot 1) into its first-named position. All of the carriers similarly successively turn on their respective pivots b as the reel rotates, and the result is the bolting 5 of the material through the bottom and sides of the reel and the prevention of the dropping of the material violently onto the bottom of the reel. By reason of the pivot I) being at one side of the center of the strip, one side thereof is heavier than the other, and hence the described movement of the strip upon its pivot is more eifectually accomplished. The movement of the strip upon its pivot is conveniently limited by means of the arms b which extend beyond the pivot Z1, and are slotted at b to receive the pin 19 which projects from the arm a and thereby serves as a stop to the arm 11 as the strip is vibrated.

I desire, however, not to be confined to this mode of pivoting and operating the strip. The pivot may be at its center, and the strip may be weighted at one side thereof.

I claim- 1. The combination of the reel-arms, the 6 pins 12, the strips b, the pivots Z), and the slotted arms b substantially as described;

2. A bolting-reel frame having a central shaft, a head, a tail-spider, and the boltingcloth attached thereto, in combination with 7c two opposite spider-frames mounted on the shaft at the opposite ends of and within the reel, having stop-lugs on their inner faces, and a series of longitudinal elevator-buckets mounted between said spiders and limited in 7 5 their inward movement by said lugs and adapted to carry the material being bolted up and dash it against the descending side of the cloth and to jar the cloth at the same time.

JAMES E. XVELCl-I.

lVitnesses:

THOS. WV. READY, FRANCIS VALLE. 

